I’m parsing a UTF-8 string that looks like this:
$Item$
Some text
More Text
$Item$
Some text
More text
When I do
Items() = Source.Split("$Item$")
Split returns the correct number of fields (Items), but they’re all empty strings 
Is Split unable to handle a string containing EndOfLines?
I would expect the array members to still have the EndOfLines in them so it might appear blank in the variable viewer in the debugger or in a TextField.
They are actually zero length.
Huh. I wouldn’t expect that at all.
Do you have a sample you can share?
Curiouser and curiouser…
I made an example project and again after executing Split the fields are all zero length in the debugger.
But when added to a text area, the content magically appears!
Seems maybe an IDE bug?
What are the value of fields 1, 2 and 3? are those zero length too?
All fields are shown as zero length in the debugger.
EDIT: I am stupid, and did not look carefully enough at the other fields after checking field(0).
If your text starts with “$Item$”, the first element of your array will be empty, and the second element will start with a newline. Could that be what you are seeing?
I’m not worried about off-by-one errors at this point. Was just surprised that the debugger shows all fields as zero length. I guess I’ll carry on coding and see if it works, since the fields in the example program have content despite what the debugger shows.
You might also want to remove the first "$Item$, and then trim each field to remove leading and trailing return characters and whitepspaces.
s = s.Trim
If s.Left(6) = "$Item$" Then
//remove first one so you don't start with a blank field
s = s.Right(s.Length - 6)
End If
fields = s.Split("$Item$")
For i As Integer = 0 To fields.LastIndex
fields(i) = fields(i).Trim
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